Here, we (led by French PhD student Cyril) use the same kind of 3D musculoskeletal modelling process as paper #2 above, but including real data from dissections of muscles from a white rhino, and usage of those data in a simple static simulation to estimate how the muscles might be ...
A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political...
Success in software development is at least as much about avoiding failure modes as it is about “best practices.” I conjecture it’s because software development on a commercial scale is so hard that almost any mistake will sink a project if left uncorrected or even worse, actively encouraged...
First-hand knowledge is a whole different thing from the second-hand kind. When you experience an event with your senses, you’re not just accepting a verbal claim, such as “There’s fighting in the streets of Kabul” — the truth is actually happening to you. The experienced sailorknows...
I’m not clear on how I got to be who I am today. A popular couple in my high school got married after a few years of university. We were all happy for them. They were wonderful people and the perfect couple. They are both dead …as is my dear Christine. Don’t know exactly ho...
Intrigued, read the rhino horn piece. Glad you're out there.John Lake, Staten Island Thank you so much for making this podcast! For ages I've been thinking that the whole Internet has gone crazy with nearly every interesting subject being taking over by a popular uprising of wild ...
Language is never neutral, and language in international conventions relies on a long history of politics, compromises, and negotiated definitions. Any newly conceived language should be closely scrutinised: What does it look like? What does it mean? How will it be measured? Who is supporti...
Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Coonskin (1975) More like this >> A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison ...
But “big” is only relative- my large hand for scale here vs. a simply ginormousMammuthus meridionalis; full skeleton below. Four-tusked, moderate-sizedAmebelodonelephantiform. Naked woolly rhinocerosCoelodonta. Extinct rhinoDiaceratherium, with a pathological ankle (degenerative joint disease). I...
(I mean, my son did warm to a restaurant straw wrapper that he kept on his bedside table for months.) Is it all kinds of delightful because the story is written and illustrated by the magnificent Italian storyteller, Beatrice Alemagna, the talent behind one of my forever favorites, On a ...